Apple on Tuesday reported its [fiscal] Q1 2017 earnings, offering a
look at its performance over the all-important 3-month holiday
quarter. To the surprise of many analysts, the company beat Wall
Street’s expectations by posting a record 78.3 million iPhone sales and
$78.4 billion in revenue.

Here are Q1 2017 numbers compared to figures from the same quarter in 2016.

Revenue: $78.4 billion vs. $75.9 billion

iPhones: 78.3 million vs. 74.8 million, up 5%

iPads: 13.1 million vs. 16.1 million, down 19%

Macs: 5.37 million vs. 5.31 million, up 1%

And here are some comments on the numbers from Tim Cook and Apple CFO Luca Maestri:

“We’re thrilled to report that our holiday quarter
results generated Apple’s highest quarterly revenue ever, and broke
multiple records along the way. We sold more iPhones than ever before
and set all-time revenue records for iPhone, Services, Mac and Apple
Watch,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Revenue from Services grew strongly
over last year, led by record customer activity on the App Store, and
we are very excited about the products in our pipeline.”“Our outstanding business performance resulted in a new all-time
record for earnings per share, and over $27 billion in operating cash
flow,” said Luca Maestri, Apple’s CFO. “We returned nearly $15 billion
to investors through share repurchases and dividends during the quarter,
bringing cumulative payments through our capital return program to over
$200 billion.”

Other interesting points from the earnings report include the revenue
from “Other Products,” which includes Apple Watch and Beats headphone
sales, was down 8% year-over-year in Q1, and revenue from China sales
fell 12%. That’s pretty big considering the country is Apple’s 2nd
largest market.

To compare year-over-year, Apple earned $75.9 billion in revenue, on the backs of 74.7 million iPhones, 16.1 million iPads, and 5.3 million Macs sold in the first quarter of 2016.

Apple on Tuesday reported its [fiscal] Q1 2017 earnings, offering a
look at its performance over the all-important 3-month holiday
quarter. To the surprise of many analysts, the company beat Wall
Street’s expectations by posting a record 78.3 million iPhone sales and
$78.4 billion in revenue.

Here are Q1 2017 numbers compared to figures from the same quarter in 2016.

Revenue: $78.4 billion vs. $75.9 billion

iPhones: 78.3 million vs. 74.8 million, up 5%

iPads: 13.1 million vs. 16.1 million, down 19%

Macs: 5.37 million vs. 5.31 million, up 1%

And here are some comments on the numbers from Tim Cook and Apple CFO Luca Maestri:

“We’re thrilled to report that our holiday quarter
results generated Apple’s highest quarterly revenue ever, and broke
multiple records along the way. We sold more iPhones than ever before
and set all-time revenue records for iPhone, Services, Mac and Apple
Watch,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Revenue from Services grew strongly
over last year, led by record customer activity on the App Store, and
we are very excited about the products in our pipeline.”“Our outstanding business performance resulted in a new all-time
record for earnings per share, and over $27 billion in operating cash
flow,” said Luca Maestri, Apple’s CFO. “We returned nearly $15 billion
to investors through share repurchases and dividends during the quarter,
bringing cumulative payments through our capital return program to over
$200 billion.”

Other interesting points from the earnings report include the revenue
from “Other Products,” which includes Apple Watch and Beats headphone
sales, was down 8% year-over-year in Q1, and revenue from China sales
fell 12%. That’s pretty big considering the country is Apple’s 2nd
largest market.

To compare year-over-year, Apple earned $75.9 billion in revenue, on the backs of 74.7 million iPhones, 16.1 million iPads, and 5.3 million Macs sold in the first quarter of 2016.